ABSTRACT
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presents types of ontologies. Section 1.3 discusses construction parameters. Sections 1.4 and 1.5 deal with interoperability and Semantic Web issues. Section 1.6 explains traditional application areas for ontology. Reasoning issues are presented in Section 1.7. Section 1.8 discusses ontology languages, including representation types such as XML schema and RDF schema, to provide contexts for understanding OWL. We also discuss the basics of OWL-properties and examples. Section 1.9 describes integration of ontology and rule languages. Section 1.10 describes ontology-driven information integration. Finally, Section 1.11 presents useful Semantic Web tools.
